Self Control Quotes
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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follett)
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Superior people never make long visits. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt )
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
For fast-acting relief try slowing down. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The highest result of education is tolerance. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Love understands love; it needs no talk. (Quote by - Frances Ridley Havergal)
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. (Quote by - Mary F. Robinson)
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers. (Quote by - Richard Holloway)
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
Without discipline, there's no life at all. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. (Quote by - Camryn Manheim)
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. (Quote by - Lisa Kirk)
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. (Quote by - Dianna Booher)
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. (Quote by - Harriet Martineau)
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. (Quote by - Pietro Aretino)
Never eat more than you can lift. (Quote by - Miss Piggy)
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. (Quote by - Gertrude Atherton)
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible. (Quote by - Marie Leneru)
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others. (Quote by - Geraldine Ferraro)
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (Quote by - John Milton)
Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. (Quote by - John Stevenson)
Don't give advice unless you're asked. (Quote by - Amy Alcott)
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it. (Quote by - Osa Johnson)
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. (Quote by - Teresa of Avila)
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others. (Quote by - Sharon Anthony Bower)
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. (Quote by - Vita Sackville-West)
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security. (Quote by - Myrtle Reed)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
I listen and give input only if somebody asks. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power. (Quote by - Millicent Fenwick)
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. (Quote by - Pearl Strachan Hurd)
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. (Quote by - Muriel Spark)
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. (Quote by - Susan Griffin)
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. (Quote by - Marie Chapian)
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Minimum information given with maximum politeness. (Quote by - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. (Quote by - Meg Greenfield)
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. (Quote by - George Eliot)
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
It was enough just to sit there without words. (Quote by - Louise Erdrich)
You must have discipline to have fun. (Quote by - Julia Child)
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. (Quote by - Louis XIV)
Self-command is the main elegance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins. (Quote by - Caroline Begelow LeRow)
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow. (Quote by - Doris Grumbach)
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. (Quote by - L. M. Montgomery)
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. (Quote by - Helen Gurley Brown)
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. (Quote by - Myrtle Reed)
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. (Quote by - Epictetus)
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people. (Quote by - Florence Hurst Harriman)
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Quote by - Ouida)
A little of what you fancy does you good. (Quote by - Marie Lloyd)
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. (Quote by - Hannah Moore)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. (Quote by - Bruno Bettelheim)
I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. (Quote by - Adelaide Proctor)
Waiting is one of the great arts. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)
Gammy used to say, "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things." (Quote by - Betty MacDonald)
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. (Quote by - Marie de France)
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise. (Quote by - Christine Downing)
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you! (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. (Quote by - Margaret Oliphant)
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. (Quote by - Ida Tarbell)
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. (Quote by - H. P. Liddon)
When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others. (Quote by - Anne Wilson Schaef)
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors. (Quote by - Plautus)
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
No man is free who is not master of himself. (Quote by - Epictetus)
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose. (Quote by - - Indira Gandhi)
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. (Quote by - Charlotte Lennox)
He that would govern others should first be the master of himself. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view. (Quote by - Betty Boothroyd)
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
